australia, the next opponent in the quarterfinals, and the two teams with zero points have changed their coaches, but the chinese national football team remains unmoved
2024-09-25
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the calls for a change of coach for the chinese national football team can come to an end for the time being. ivankovic went to watch several domestic matches on site, which indirectly proved that the 70-year-old croatian will continue to serve as the head coach of the chinese men's football team, at least there will be no change before the fourth round of the 18th round of the asian qualifiers for the world cup.
according to the schedule, the third round of the 18th round will be held on october 10, and the fourth round will be held on october 15. the chinese national football team will play against australia and indonesia. each participating team will announce the list of the next team training around this weekend. in adelaide, australia, the chinese team will face a brand new australian team. after only getting 1 point in the first two rounds, the australian football association fired arnold, the head coach of the national team for six years. arnold's coaching games (55 games) ranked second in the history of the australian team, second only to farina (58 games). this monday, the australian football association announced that tony popovich will be the new head coach of the national team.
popovich becomes new coach of australia team
popovich, 51, led melbourne victory to the a-league finals last season, but lost to central coast mariners in overtime and left the team after the season. popovich was an australian international in the late 20th century and early 2000s, playing as a central defender. he was briefly teammates with fan zhiyi at crystal palace. after retiring, popovich switched to coaching and got his first head coaching contract at western sydney wanderers, where he reached his peak coaching career. in 2014, popovich led the budget-constrained and under-appreciated western sydney wanderers to win the afc champions league. the team defeated six east asian powerhouses including kawasaki frontale, ulsan hyundai, guizhou renhe, sanfrecce hiroshima, guangzhou evergrande, and seoul fc, and defeated saudi giants riyadh crescent with a total score of 1-0 in two home and away games in the final. after becoming famous, popovich had been rumored to be linked with chinese super league teams many times, but he never entered the chinese football scene.
at present, one team in each group of the 18th round has lost both games. in addition to the chinese team, the other two teams, oman and kyrgyzstan, have changed their coaches. ivankovic's former team oman lost 0-1 to iraq in group b, and then lost 1-3 to south korea. subsequently, the oman football association fired the czech head coach hilhawi (who is ivankovic's successor) and hired local coach rashid jaber to lead the team on september 19. the 60-year-old jaber served as oman's fire-fighting coach twice at the end of the last century and the beginning of this century. this time, it is likely to be just an emergency. it is not ruled out that oman will change its coach again during the window period after the end of the sixth round.
tarkovic (right) fired ivankovic (left) at the asian cup and now he has been fired
kyrgyzstan in group a lost only one goal in the first two rounds against iran and uzbekistan, which was not a bad result, but the country's football association still terminated the contract with slovak head coach tarkovic. interestingly, it was tarkovic who led the kyrgyzstan team to a draw with oman in the last round of the asian cup group stage, which led to ivankovic being fired by the oman football association. the team's new head coach is maxim lisitsyn. the 46-year-old russian has no coaching experience worth writing about, but he coached the kyrgyzstan u20 team since the summer of the previous year, and led the u23 team to compete in the u23 asian cup qualifiers and the hangzhou asian games last year. he also temporarily coached several national team games, and obviously has a better understanding of the country's situation.
the two solutions when the public called for a change of coach for the national football team were to have a senior local coach temporarily take over, or to choose one of the two foreign coaches who coached the national youth team. these were also the methods chosen by oman and kyrgyzstan. in the end, the chinese football association chose to continue to trust ivankovic. whether this choice was correct or not may be revealed in two weeks.
author: shen lei
text: our reporter/shen lei photo: visual china editor: wu yulun responsible editor: gu miao
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